Refracted Identity

I changed my voice to sound like yours Cut myself down just to fit your world Every mirror in this house looks wrong Cause I forgot who I was trying to become You loved the version that kept quiet The one that never fought back So I buried every honest piece of me Just to keep you from leaving again I dyed my soul in colors you liked Turned all my edges soft and white Smiled through the damage, swallowed my pride Just so maybe you’d hold me at night And I’m so tired Of becoming someone else Every time you look away I erase another part of myself Tell me what I gotta change Tell me who I gotta be How much of me has to die Before you finally love me? I learned your favorite lies by heart Wore them like stitches across my scars You called it love when I disappeared But I was just surviving off your fear Now I can’t tell what’s real anymore Your reflection lives inside my skin I spent so long chasing your approval I don’t remember where I end So scream at me again Tell me I’m impossible to keep Maybe if I break enough You’ll finally see something worth needing Cause I bent until my bones gave out Turned my pain into your perfect mouth And every piece of who I was Got lost inside what you wanted most Now the room spins with every word I don’t recognize my own heartbeat I became everything you asked for And somehow I’m still not enough So here’s the truth underneath the blood You never wanted me You wanted control And I was starving enough to confuse that with love Now I’m peeling your fingerprints off my skin Trying to remember my own name again If loving you means losing myself Then maybe I’d rather be alone instead #metalcore #posthardcore #newmusic #indieartist #emorevival #lyricvideo #undergroundmusic #emotionalmusic #modernmetal #breakdown #breakupsongs #musicdiscovery #newmusic #screamo